Industry veteran Andy Simmons joins Orbital Sound

Andy Simmons has joined Orbital Sound in a "strategic appointment" to the position of director of sales.

Joining Orbital from "early November", Simmons brings over 25 years' international sales and marketing experience in the pro-audio sector with brands including Crest Audio, XTA Electronics, Peavey and KV2. He will be working to develop the company's long-term sales portfolio and "make full use of the product-specialist expertise available with the organisation".

He comments: "Orbital has a tremendous reputation and a unique set of highly skilled specialists. It is my role to capitalise on those skills and build the team still further, developing Orbital's sales structure to broaden its market scope, widen its choice of premium brands and extend its geographical reach.

"Orbital is renowned for its innovation on many levels and across people, products and service, and and I am relishing the prospect of contributing to that spirit of innovation, and to the business as a whole."

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